OVERVIEW CARD Key Question: Bottom Line: Who is the best? Jesus is the best! Memory Verse: Bible Story Focus: Jesus shows me I can serve others. Washing Feet John 13:3-17 Coloring Page: Jesus washes His friends feet. Music: God is Big and He Loves Me Praise the Lord Everyday Shout Bible Lesson: The Beginner s Bible Washing the Disciples Feet Pages 437 to 441 Story: The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
ACTIVITY 1 2 s/3 s only Scrub-a-Dub-Dub Hide the Sponges around the room and let the children find and collect them. What You Need: Sponges Hide the sponges around the room. Tell the children that sponges are hidden throughout our classroom. Have the children find and collect all the sponges. Once all the sponges have been found, let each child choose one sponge. Spread out in an open area in the room and have the children balance their sponges on different body parts that you call out. Collect all the sponges and Bring it Back to Jesus*. Before the activity: Hey, friends! I have a fun game for us to play! We are going to play with these sponges. (Show the kids the sponges.) There are sponges like this one hidden throughout our classroom and we have to find and collect them all before we can play our game. Can you help me find all the sponges? (Pause) Great! Let s find some sponges! During the activity: Come grab a sponge and spread out. Everybody hold your sponge way up in the air. (Pause.) Super listening! Let s try balancing your sponge on your head. (Pause.) Fantastic! Now let s try to balance it on your foot like this. (Demonstrate.) Your turn. (Pause.) You re doing great! Let s try to balance it on your elbow. (Pause.) Now try the top of your hand. At the end of the activity: That was so much fun! You did a great job listening and balancing your sponge. Is this what we usually use sponges for? (Pause.) No! Usually we wash things with sponges, don t we? Our Bible lesson was all about Jesus washing. Do you remember what He washed? (Pause) *Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
The image part with relationship ID rid8 was not found in the file. March Weeks 1 and 2 ACTIVITY 2 2 s/3 s only Hokey Pokey Sing and dance to the Hokey Pokey song. What You Need: CD Player and CD Labeled EC Music June 2010 with song number 3 Give Your Heart to Jesus Have the children stand in a circle in an open area of the room. Lead the children in singing and dancing to the song, Give Your Heart to Jesus (Repeat the song as long as the children are having fun.) Bring it Back to Jesus*. Before the activity: Who s ready to have a little fun? Yay! Me, too! I need you to use your best singing voices and dance moves with me today. I want you to imagine dirt and mud and yucky dirty feet as we sing our song today. Ready? (Pause.) Follow me and sing what I sing! At the end of the activity: I think we used every part of our body to sing and dance to the Hokey Pokey. Let s see, we used our hands (point to your hands), our head (point to your head), and our FEET (point to your feet). We learned today, that our friend *Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
The image part with relationship ID rid8 was not found in the file. March Weeks 1 and 2 ACTIVITY 3 - All Sponge Toss Memory Verse Children will play with the parachute while practicing their memory verse. What You Need: Car Wash Sponges Bounce the sponges off the parachute then say the memory verse. Collect all the sponges and Bring it Back to Jesus*. During the activity: Look at these sponges! We are going to toss them around on our parachute. Give the sponges a toss! (Pause.) Super! Keep going! Woo-hoo! We also have a new Bible verse and I can t wait to teach it to you. It says: God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, John 3:16. Now let s say it together. Awesome! Let s use this parachute to practice our new verse. Every time we knock off all the sponges, we will say our verse together. Sound good? Just follow me! (Repeat the verse several times together.) At the end of the activity: That was fun! Can you be a helper and pick up all the sponges? (Pause.) Super duper! What do we usually use sponges for? (Pause.) Yes, washing things! Today we heard a lesson about washing feet! Do you remember whose feet Jesus washed? (Pause.) Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
ACTIVITY 4 4 s/5 s only Hot Sponge Children will play a game of Hot Potato with a sponge. What You Need: Large car wash sponge, CD player and fun music Have the children sit in a circle in an open area of the room. Start the music and have the children pass the sponge around the circle. Stop the music and say the chant below together. Each time you stop/start the music increase the number of times you say the chant by one. Repeat several times challenging the children to get faster each time. Collect the sponge and Bring it Back to Jesus*. Before the Activity: Everyone come sit in a circle. I want to teach you a fun chant about Jesus! It goes like this: J-E-S-U-S! We love Jesus because He s the best! Let s say it together. J-E-S-U-S! We love Jesus because He s the best! Awesome! One more time! J-E-S-U-S! We love Jesus because He s the best! Great! During the activity: (Hold up sponge.) When I play the music, pass this around the circle. You will pass it to the person next to you. When the music stops we will all say our chant. Here we go! (Start the music and let play for a minute and then stop it.) J-E-S-U-S! We love Jesus because He s the best! Great! Let s do it faster this time! (Continue to repeat the activity and challenge the children to get faster each time.) At the end of the activity: Great job! Can you say our chant one more time? (Repeat the chant one more time).) Nice work! *We learned today, that our friend Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
CRAFT WEEK 1 Memory Verse Children will make a picture frame/door hanger displaying the memory verse. What You Need: Picture Frame (2 s and 3 s), stampers (2 s and 3 s), magnets (2 s and 3 s) Door Hanger (4 s and 5 s), stickers (4 s and 5 s) and memory verse Picture Frame (2 s and 3 s): Tape the memory verse inside the frame Attach magnets to the back of the frames. Give each child a frame and stamper. Have children decorate the picture frame with the stamper. Door Hanger (4 s and 5 s): Place 4 to 5 stickers in each Dixie cup (one per child). Attach the memory verse onto the front of the door hanger. Give each child a door hanger and Dixie cup of stickers. Have children decorate the door hanger with stickers. Before the Activity: We have a new memory verse this month! It is: God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, John 3:16. Now let s say it together. (Repeat several times.) Today, we are going to make a door hanger/picture frame displaying our memory verse that you can take home to help you practice saying our memory verse throughout the month. After the Activity: Our memory verse tells us that God loves us SO much that He sent us Jesus. He gave us His only Son! Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
CRAFT WEEK 2 Washing Feet THIS ACTIVITY WILL NOT BE SEND HOME BUT USED ONLY DURING CLASSROOM TIME Children will use expo markers to make the feet dirty and then use a Kleenex to clean them up. What You Need: Feet Activity Pages in clear sheet protectors, dry erase markers, and Kleenex Give each child a copy of the Feet activity page in the clear sheet protectors, a dry erase marker, and a Kleenex. Color the feet with the dry erase markers to make them Dirty. Wipe of the dirt with a Kleenex to make the feet Clean. Repeat this activity as long as they are interested and having fun. Before the activity: Our Bible lesson today was about how Jesus washed his friends feet. Do you remember why their feet were so dirty? (Pause) The disciples wore sandals. And do you think they had cars to take them places? (Pause.) Nope. Everywhere the disciples went, they walked through the dust and through the rain and through the mud! Yikes! So at the end of the day, the disciples feet were really, really, stinky dirty yucky! We need to make our feet really really dirty. I gave each of you a feet picture and a marker. I want you to draw dirt all over the feet. (Pause for children to draw.) During the activity: I see some really dirty feet! One day, Jesus walked up to the disciples and washed their feet! (Point to the Kleenex) Jesus, God s Son, helped His friends and washed their feet. Do you know why He did it? (Pause.) He wanted to show them something. He wanted to show them how much He loved them. Jesus loved them and so He helped them. Now I want you to use this Kleenex to wipe away all the dirt. (Demonstrate.) There! All clean! Let s do that again! (Continue to make the feet dirty and wipe the dirt away as many times as the children want. Repeat the phrases, Who is the Best? Jesus is the Best!) After the Activity: We learned today, that our friend Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. Who is the best? Jesus is the best!
PLAYDOH / PRAYER TIME PLAYDOH / PRAYER TIME What you Need: Parent Take Home Card, Playdoh, Heart Cookie Cutters, Rolling Pins, and Stickers SMALL GROUP LEADER (SGL): It s Prayer and Playdoh time! Since our Bible lesson was about feet, let s hop on one foot to our tables. (Hop over to the tables) That was fun! Now let s sit down so we can talk about our lesson today. One, two, three, sit down with me! SGL: In our lesson we learned that our friend Jesus washed His friends dirty feet as a way of saying, I love you. We can love our friends like Jesus did. All you have to do is look for ways to help them. I want everyone to think of one thing you can do at home to show your family that you love them. Maybe you can: Help your brother or sister clean their room. Help your mom or dad with a chore around the house. Make a special snack for the family. Think about it, and when I say your name tell me one way you can help your family to show them how much you love them. (Pause) Wow! These are great ideas! Your family will see how much you love them when you do these things. Now I ll pray. SGL: Ok, it s time to review our lesson. I am going to ask you some questions and you will get a sticker for answering them. I have some really cool stickers today. Are you ready? (Pause) Great! Go from child to child and have them repeat the memory verse for a sticker. Ask the children the Bottom Line question for a sticker. Using the Parent Take Home card, ask each child individually the questions pertaining to this week s lesson and give out a sticker.